An Anthropological Perspective on "Race" and Intelligence: The Non-Clinal Nature of Human Cognitive Capabilities
@article{Brace1999AnAP,
title={An Anthropological Perspective on "Race" and Intelligence: The Non-Clinal Nature of Human Cognitive Capabilities},
author={Charles Loring Brace},
journal={Journal of Anthropological Research},
year={1999},
volume={55},
pages={245 - 264},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:83112950}
}Human cognitive capacity, founded on the ability to learn a language, is of equal survival value to all human groups, and consequently there is no valid reason to expect that there should be average differences in intellectual ability among living human populations.
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